"Compacted for ESL" means the FormID of a mod's plugin have been set to the range for ESL. It does NOT mean the file extension was changed to "ESL". Maybe the extension was changed to ESL to force a high load order or maybe it was kept ESP to make installation easier and overwrite an existing ESP of the same file name.
An ESL file is just a plugin with the .ESL file name extension. They load high and can be good for avoiding worldspace conflicts.
Some of my Power Armor files are ESL flagged ESP. That IS an "ESLified" file. That file name still has the .ESP extension. They do not count against the ESM+ESP plugin limit but do allow moving the file in load order.
The No AWKCR version is an older version (2.0) that is missing the additional paint jobs and rebalanced stats from 3.0. The only AWKCR dependency is the Workbench keyword for the constructible version of the power armor which can be addressed by removing those objects (what the No AWKCR version does) or moving it to the Chemistry Station like most things tend to do without AWKCR.
Would you be willing to update this to include the changes from 3.0? I can send you the ESP without the AWKCR requirement if you'd like - it's what I've been using in my load order.
Sure, I'll stop my sorting patch (again) to add this. But seriously, thank you so much for all the work you do. I keep discovering these sorting patches and throwing them into the mix. <3
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Would you be willing to update this to include the changes from 3.0? I can send you the ESP without the AWKCR requirement if you'd like - it's what I've been using in my load order.